(NewsNation) — R&B singer Akon’s $6 billion plans to build a futuristic city on Senegal’s Atlantic Coast have been cancelled. Instead, the country plans to create a privately funded tourism hub.

Grammy-nominated rapper Akon once had dreams of developing the African city of the future. Those dreams never got close to becoming a reality. Plans for "Akon City," a futuristic metropolis modeled to ...

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Producer, singer, rapper, and developer Akon is clearing up any rumors and confusion about his ongoing “Akon City” project in Senegal after reports surfaced that the $6 billion project was being ...

R&B singer Akon is officially moving ahead with his plans to build a futuristic pan-African city in his native Senegal that he previously likened to the fictional city of Wakanda from the movie “Black ...

Akon’s former business partner Devyne Stephens filed a lawsuit against the singer, accusing the “Don’t Matter” artist of stiffing him out of $750,000 from a 2018 settlement agreement and $3 million in ...

The Senegalese-American musician and millionaire Akon is still moving forward with his quixotic quest to build a city named - yes - “Akon City” in Senegal that will run on a cryptocurrency named ...

The award-winning R&B singer Akon is going ahead with ambitious plans to build a “futuristic” city in Senegal that he says will be a real-life version of Wakanda, the hi-tech nation portrayed in ...